Sunday, December 2, 2012

Adventures In Baby Sleep Training!

When you're an unwed-mother-to-be the doctors harp on you about SIDS.

For the exception of false labor twice, my pregnancy was pretty normal/easy as far as BMad (baby) was concerned.

After they released us from the hospital we had to go right back because of her bilirubin levels being so high.

After 16hrs of light therapy & a stay in the NICU, I was officially paranoid! I was afraid of her being far enough away I couldn't hear her if she quit breathing. BMad started sleeping with me.

Horrible awful idea! Lol

Due to circumstances beyond my control it continued until 3 days ago..

Day 1: She feel asleep with no fuss & slept through the night.

Day 2: Fussed a little. I picked her up & bounced her. We sang ABCs & Twinkle Twinkle. Put her back to bed & she was out all night. In fact she slept in!

Day 3: She played with her glowing turtle for a little bit, then fussed, tossed & turned, fussed more. So I changed her diaper & we sang again. Out cold!

There's absolutely no way this could be this easy?!

I have the best baby on the planet :D

BMad is also quite the talker:

She tries to help sing ABCs & Twinkle Twinkle..

She knows 1 2 3

Mama, cat, dog, kitty, that, this, I love you, got it, good girl, good job, off, sit down, Daisy (sitter's dog), Cindy, Sandi, Grace, Jack, Brodie, hey, hi, phone, bye..

(Although, it's hard to tell sometimes)

I'm so very lucky that I get to be her mommy :) <3 <3